“We’ll have to wait and see”
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They reduce the level of care required. This means more people with "normal" healthcare requirements have a better chance of getting the care they need,
24 February 2022 "mRNA vaccines were found to be highly effective in preventing covid-19 associated hospital admissions related to the alpha, delta, and omicron variants, but three vaccine doses were required to achieve protection against omicron similar to the protection that two doses provided against the delta and alpha variants." https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj-2021-069761
March 2, 2022 "Primary immunization with two doses of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or BNT162b2 vaccine provided limited protection against symptomatic disease caused by the omicron variant. A BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 booster after either the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or BNT162b2 primary course substantially increased protection" https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2119451
How do you measure protection with a benign virus?
Got a link?
https://globalnews.ca/news/8636502/covid-omicron-death-south-korea-data/
Omicron variant’s severity and death rates averaged 0.38% and 0.18%, respectively, compared with 1.4% and 0.7% for the Delta cases.
Just to add those death rates are heavily skewed by deaths over 65.
The death rate under 40 is basically zero.
So people in South Korea are still getting sick and dying from the virus. A lower rate is good, for sure, but if the number of cases overall is going up enough you still have the same load on the healthcare system. Your article doesn't say how much the case count has increased, just that records are being broken: "The Omicron variant has led to a surge in cases — daily new infections topped a record 100,000 last week"
We're coming off a peak load on the system here in Canada and that's good. Restrictions are coming off but we're still in territory that is concerning. https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data